Associate Professor of Economics with Habilitation, UBI. PhD in Economics (2004), UBI; Habilitation in Technological Change and Entrepreneurship (2017), IST, University of Lisbon, Portugal Director of the UBIExecutive, Business School. Vice-coordinator and full researcher of the NECE, Research Center in Business Sciences, UBI. Collaborator researcher at the CEG-IST - Centre for Management Studies of Instituto Superior Técnico, Associate researcher of the ICS - Instituto de Ciências Sociais, University of Lisbon and External researcher at the IME - Instituto Multidisciplinar de Empresa, Universidad de Salamanca. President of the Associação Portuguesa para o Desenvolvimento Regional (APDR), Portuguese Section of the European Regional Science Association (ERSA). Member of the Strategic Council of the Ordem dos Economistas. Senior member of the Ordem dos Economistas, College of Business Economics and Management Editor of the Springer Book Series: Studies in Entrepreneurship, Structural Change and Industrial Dynamics (ESCID), indexed in SCOPUS; and Business Model Research (BMR). Member of: the MIT Technology Review Global Panel, a community of business professionals; the EIT Food RIS Policy Council; and the EIT Food South Experts.